Fred Hechinger played the awfully sweet Quinn Mossbacher (maybe the only non-awful character) in the first season of The White Lotus, and his character arc is charming and hopeful. He takes a perpendicular path in the new Ridley Scott film Gladiator II, where he plays Emperor Caracalla, brother of Joseph Quinn’s Emperor Greta, and they make a pair of nasty antagonists that will surely remain memorable. Perhaps the most memorable thing from the film, though, will be the gargantuan set piece that floods the Colosseum to create an epic water fight. In a recent interview with MovieWeb, Hechinger shared how this was based on a wild reality:
The charming Fred Hechinger plays Emperor Caracalla and takes us behind the scenes of the Colosseum water fight and working with Joseph Quinn. Read More